Roller-bearing.



No. 823,083. PATENTED JUNE 12, 1906.

W. H. RUSSELL. ROLLER BEARING.

APPLIGATION TILED APR. 27. 1905.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

ROLLER BEAEENG.

Patented Tune 12 1906.

Application filed April 27,1905. Serial No. 257.565.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, WiLLixM llnnnnnsox RUssELL, of the village of Dougl'astown, Province of New Brunswick, Dominion of Canada, have invented certain new and use ful Improvements in Roller Bearings, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

Myinvention relates, broadly, to that class of mechanical devices known as roller-bear ings, and more particularly to those bearings which are used in vehicles.

The object of my device is to reduce to a minimum the end friction presentin all former typesj The particular construction ernployed to attain this end will be readily un .derstood upon referring to the iolloning description and annexed drawing, which is a longitudinal sectional View through the center, showing the relative position of all the parts. Onthe right of this figure the rollers and rings are shown in section to more clearly illustrate the seating of the balls, and on the left the rollers, balls,.and rings are shown in elevation.

In" the drawing around the central axle B and parallel to it are placed rollers Q in se ries, the series being a suitable distance apart, as illustrated. Each of these rollers is provided with a hemispherical concave pocket in each end, adapted to receive a ball D. At each end of the series of rollers is a hardened annular ring E, surrounding the axle, but not in contact with it. In the face of the ring adjacent to the rollers are a hum-- berv of pool? 5s similar to those in the rollers and so dis; sed that there is a pocket in the I'lIl s opposite to the pocket in the end of eac roller. These pockets are of such a depth that on the ball being seated in them there is a slight clearance between the rings and the rollers. The rings have annular channels out on the sides remote from the ocltets, in which are placed a plurality of alls F, slightly larger in diameter than the depth of the channel, but smaller than the balls in the ends of the rollers. It is by this means that-e clearance is effected between the rings and the adjacent collars G G and the sle ves L. outside of the rings, and the balls F rotate in the channel above mentioned between the inner collars rotate with the bushing Awhile the outer collars G are attached, respec- The collars G G are placed tively, to the nut H and the adjustable colliLI Surrounding the rollers and rings is a hardened sleeve L, against the inside of which the rollers and be is F bear. This sleeve is rigidly attached to the interior of the bushing A, and consequently rotates with it. At one end of the hub is a nut H, engaging with the extremity of the axle B and serving to hold the bearing in o'ierative position.

The axle B is provi ed at suitable distances from its extremities with an adjustable collar J for taking up slack. motion and wear in the moving parts.

At either extremity of the hub are dustce s K, the one covering the nut H being solid, while the othernan1ely, the one GOV-.- ering the adjustable collaris provided with a central circular opening, through which the axle pisses. This dust-cup is further pro-- vided with a dust-brush K of suitable material, preferably felt, in the form of an annular ring rigidly attached to the dust-cap and bearing against the adjustable collar, as shown. A plain washer filling the space between the dust-cap and the adjustable collar may be used, if desired.

The bushing A. is designed to be made in two similar parts, as shown in the drawing. These parts telescope into one another and are further fastened together by rivets M passing through the flanges. In a vehiclewheel designed for light use the spokes of the wheel are inserted between the flanges of the bushing and secured by the rivets. in a heavier wheel having a large wooden hub the spokes will not touch the bushing A, but will be secured to the wooden exterior hub in the usual manner, the rivets only serving to hold the sections of the bushing together.

My device may also be applied to hearings or line-shafting, motors, rotary fans, and iinilar machines, as well as all classes of veni les.

Having thus described my invention, so that the same may be readily understood by those skilled in the art to which it apportains, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

In a bearing, a plurality of rollers having concave pockets in. their ends, rings adjacent to the ends of the rollers, said rings being i..- shaoed in cross-section and having concave pochcts in their inner laces oppositely dis-- posed to the pockets in the rollers and anon lar channels in their outer laces, a series of IIO balls bearing in said pockets, a second series dust-cap carrying a 'dfi'st-brush adapted to of balls disposed in said annular channels, bear against thgadfustable collar. 16 said second series of balls having a larger di- In witness whereof I have hereunto set my ameter than the depth of the channels in hand in the presence of two Witnesses.

either direction, collars adapted to contact WILLIAM HENDERSON RUSSELL.

with the second series of balls, an adjusting- Witnesses: collar located at the end of the bearing and a A. A. ArTKEN, dust-cap covering said adjusting-collar, said R. T. D. AITKEN. 

